Tuesday Night Reading Concepts
By Kelly Moran
In last nights reading, I learned some new concepts and terms. I learned about an extrapolation which is a procedure in which you follow the trend of your best-fit line by extending a dashed line from the best-fit line you drew for the first 10 alkanes. Polar molecules are molecules that exhibit permanent partial charges. Opposite partial charges in neighboring polar molecules attract one another, resulting in intermolecular forces (attraction or repulsing with neighboring particles) between the molecules. A straight-chain alkane is a representation where each carbon atom is only linked to one or two other carbon atoms. Branched-chain alkanes are where one carbon atom can be linked to three or four other carbon atoms. An alkane composed of four or more carbon atoms can either be represented as a straight-chain or a branched-chain. Structural isomers are different representations and models of the same molecule. These are all the main concepts and terms that I learned from last nights reading!
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